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Meet the 29-year-old activist and attorney chairing California’s Reparations Task Force

Vision, commitment to justice, deep education, and youth energy fire up the Reparations Task Force.

Michelle Alexander on California’s ‘cruel and unusual’ prisons

On May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 decision ordering California to release tens of thousands of inmates from its overcrowded prisons on the grounds that their living conditions – including lethally inadequate healthcare – were so intolerable as to be “cruel and unusual punishment.”

‘The New Jim Crow’

Michelle Alexander's most salient point in her book "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” is her finding that America’s Black population constitutes a “racial caste” that feeds and perpetuates mass incarceration.